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French Newspaper Condemned over Cartoon Mocking Gazans’ Hunger

sajadi - Wednesday, 13 March 2024 - 07:06 WIB

Wednesday, 13 March 2024 - 07:06 WIB

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Gaza, MINA – A cartoon depicting Palestinian hunger in Gaza during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, published in the French daily, Liberation, sparked ire on social media, with some criticising the widely-read daily for mocking Israeli forces’ “genocide” in the besieged enclave, Middle East Monitor reports.

The cartoon titled “Ramadan in Gaza – The start of a fasting month” was drawn by Corinne Rey, a former cartoonist at the infamous satire magazine, Charlie Hebdo.

The drawing depicts a ruined city in the background and a hand sticking out of the rubble, while a heavily breathing man chases two mice and bugs down the street. A woman sits on the street with a starving boy next to her and angrily alerts the running man, by saying, “Not before the sunset,” alluding to the Islamic practice of day-long fasting.

Social media users left angry comments under Liberation’s post on X, expressing their ire at how the cartoon mocked “genocide”.

Also Read: UN Security Council Demand Urgent End to Gaza Genocide and Famine

Many users believed the cartoon clearly mocked Gazans, deprived of basic needs and humanitarian aid, leaving them to starve. (T/RE1/P2)

Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)

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